2017.56.65
An Evening at Diego Rivera’s House, Mexico
Artist
Walter Pach
(New York, New York, 1883 – 1958, New York, New York)
Title
An Evening at Diego Rivera’s House, Mexico
Creation Date
1923
Century
mid-20th century
Dimensions
14 5/8 x 18 1/4 in. (37.15 x 46.36 cm)
Object Type
painting
Creation Place
North America, United States
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Credit Line
Gift of Francis M. Naumann and Marie T. Keller
Copyright
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Accession Number
2017.56.65
Walter Pach helped shape the notion of modernism in the United States and beyond. The prolific artist, curator, and author is best known today as one of the organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, together with Walter Kuhn and Henry McBride, which introduced American audiences to European abstraction and modernism more broadly. He later collaborated with Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg to establish the Society of Independent Artists in 1916. In the early 1920s, Pach visited Mexico, where he was impressed by the work of artists such as José Orozco, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo. His enthusiasm for Mexican modernism would lead him to help create a Mexican chapter of the Society of Independent Artists and would inspire him to write extensively about Diego Rivera.
Additional Media
obverse